Darpal Rating is a Chinese platform that offers blockchain reviews, interviews and auditing and aims to become the “Moody’s” in the digital currency sector.

In the March report, EOS is ranked first followed by Lisk, Particl, Cardano, Bitcoin and then Ethereum. In 13th position we can find Waves, Ark is 28th, Qtum is 30th and NEO in position 46th.
Analyzing the top 4, EOS, Lisk, and Cardano are competiting to become the leading platform for smart contract development, while Particl allows decentralized applications but it is mainly focused on privacy aspects.

The list is built following 5 indexes:

Popularity of the Library is defined as the mean number of Watch, Star and fork. Very High: > 500, High: between 100 and 500, MediumL between 20 and 100, Low: Below 20.

Number of Contributors: The number of contributors that have committed code in the last month. High: More than 12, Medium: between 6 and 12, Low: Below 6.

Release Frequency: the reference value is the version release frequency of Bitcoin and Ethereum, 14.31 days for a new release. The team then divides the number of average days spent for a new release by 14.31 to get a release frequency score. High: below 2, Medium: between 2 and 4, Low: above 4.

Type of commit: A1: Continuously, steadily developing new features
A2: Fixing Bugs and testing after new feature developments
A3: Releasing few new features based on initial commitment and changing configurations.
B: Fixing bugs and testing for Devops
C: Changing configuration for Devops
D: Cannot be defined in any above category